Earlier today I made my way out to my local Toys ‘R’ Us to participate in the latest Pokémon giveaway. It might not come to a surprise to you, but I was the oldest person there with DS in hand. Was I embarrassed? No, not really. I’ve been playing the series since 1998, if I was going to get embarrassed, it’d have probably happened while I was in college.
In those 11 years I’ve kind of decided that I like the games, but not enough to play them on anything resembling a competitive level. I just don’t have the patience to get down into the nitty gritty of breeding, optimizing EV points, or the time to min-max my team. I’ve got other crap to do. Of course, that didn’t stop me from putting over 197 hours into the Diamond edition.
The only kind of weird thing is to think that the game is primarily directed at people who were born the year the first game in the series came out… when I started college.
And no, that doesn’t make me feel old.